Mireille has won the 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship to complete her fourth novel. ‘Alternating a first-person narrative with the lives of other characters in Germany, Italy and Sydney, and including fragments of “official history” and speculative comment, Juchau’s work is formally inventive yet written with economy and verve.’ Judges Amal Awad and Kate Ryan

On March 11, 2024 Mireille talks on Louise Bourgeois’ psychoanalytic writings and the historical forces that shaped her sensibility. Part of a three day symposium, Louise Bourgeois Tides and Currents, coinciding with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? 

Magpie Pictures have secured the rights to Mireille Juchau’s award winning The World Without Us, and is adapting the novel into a 6x one-hour drama series THE HIVE. Angela Betzien, one of Australia’s most exciting emerging screenwriters (TOTAL CONTROL and best known for her work in theatre) will be lead writer working with multi-award-winning writer Blake Ayshford (FIGHTING […]

Mireille has won the 2020 Walkley-Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism for her New Yorker article How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism and her literary criticism for The Monthly.

Mireille has thirty years experience teaching and mentoring writers of all stages in all genres of fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, academic works, journalism, critical writing, essays and memoir. She also does manuscript assessments. Contact her directly or apply via the following programs: Faber Academy Author to Author Program, Kill Your Darlings and the NSW Writers […]

Talking with Phillip Adams about German writer Charlotte Beradt’s extraordinary work on dreams under Hitler, The Third Reich of Dreams on ABC Radio National Late Night Live

Talking with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh about Jenny Offill’s Weather on ABC Radio National’s Bookshelf

Mireille on Rachel Cusk’s Kudos, Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic and more with Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh on ABC Radio National’s Bookshelf

Mireille on Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go Went Gone on ABC Radio National’s Bookshelf

Mireille talks about her essay on Holocaust memory and ritual on ABC Radio National’s Conversations. ‘The Most Holy Object in the House’ was listed in the international Notting Hill Press Essay Prize 2015 and published in Best Australian Essays 2016, Tablet Magazine and Island Magazine 2016.